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[26 Feb 2010 | One Comment | ]
Shake Shake Shake! TPB Meets The Boston Shaker

The Boston Shaker opened its doors earlier this month, just steps from the Red Line in Davis Square, offering a solution to the cocktail lover’s wallet-related woes and giving hope to those of us looking to expand our horizon of homemade mixed drinks.

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[31 Jan 2010 | Comments Off | ]
The TPB January Hit List

At the end of 2009, Best-Of fever hit hard and we definitely got caught up in it, too. Maybe a little too caught up in it. Despite all the blabbering all over the media about 2009 being the Worst Year Ever, we kind of thought 2009 was pretty cool. Maybe too good. There was too much stuff about it that we loved.

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[27 Jan 2010 | Comments Off | ]
Brunch Notes: Our Primer for Super Hunger Brunch Weekend

Brunch. Once, the word conjured unsavory images. Steam rising from over-scrambled eggs, unapologetically bland fruit cups of cantaloupe and grape, a hangover intensified by the scent of mimosa.

Not anymore.

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[24 Dec 2009 | Comments Off | ]
12 Hours… In Logan Airport

I stand in front of a familiar window. Holly, candy canes, and the words “Season’s Greetings” are painted on the glass. Carolers in Dickensian skirts brush past me, singing “Joy to the World.” Fading sun glints on the control tower. A Sky Chefs truck rolls past piles of snow. Christmas has come to Logan Airport.

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[16 Nov 2009 | 7 Comments | ]
LUPEC Boston’s Tiki Bash: An Island-Themed Cocktail Oasis

We’re not sure what’s cooler: being a member of the X-Men, or being a member of LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails). The badass bartenders who belong to the Boston chapter of this national organization have mad skills and huge hearts, and their fall fundraiser was one of this year’s most hotly-anticipated events for Boston’s cocktail-loving crowd.

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[31 Oct 2009 | 4 Comments | ]
Smacking Beef And Confronting Winter: Inside The Hidden Doors Of Sherman Market

Among the labyrinths of traffic and Madonna statues in Union Square, Sherman Market is easy to miss. There’s no sign, just a couple of 8.5 x 11 printouts taped to the windows. We walked right past it the first time, and you will too.

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[22 Oct 2009 | Comments Off | ]
Bivalves For Beginners: Tips From The Experts At Island Creek

Everyone who’s ever eaten an oyster remembers his or her first time. The peer pressure. The slippery substrate coated in blood-red cocktail sauce. The texture of something cold and tongue-like sliding along the roof of the mouth and, ideally, immediately down the esophagus before the brain could trip the gag reflex—or, if one was brave enough to chew it the first time around, the tiny tidal wave of foreign flavors, bursting forth with notes of butter and brine and bits of primordial organs.

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[6 Oct 2009 | Comments Off | ]
O.N.C.E. Upon A Lobster: Spending A Night With A Culinary Rock Star

JJ Gonson wasn’t always this wholesome. The sister of Claudia Gonson, also known as “the girl in the Magnetic Fields,” she began her adult life as a music photographer and band manager, cooking organic and local food for her rocker buddies and beaus before it was A Thing.

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[29 Sep 2009 | Comments Off | ]
Grab Your Scythe*: It’s Time For Harvest Fest at the Armory

The summer is over. Get over it. Just let go.

Luckily, Arts at the Armory and Somerville Local First have come together to help us get pumped for that brief time of year that comes between life melting humidity and soul crushing cold.

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[23 Sep 2009 | Comments Off | ]
Saturday September 26th– Union Square Asks “What The Fluff?”

Oh hey did you know that Marshmallow Fluff, the stuff that childhood memories are made of (or at least stuck together with), was invented in Somerville?